Since 1988 the most important prize for innovative architecture in Austria has been awarded every two years by the Austrian Federal Chancellery and is being organised this year for the first time by the Architekturzentrum Wien. This competition is intended to showcase architecturally ambitious, conceptually profound, forward-looking positions and to make them accessible to a wider public.

The project panels with photographs, drawings and comments and models reveal a remarkable wealth of idea and a delight in experiment and present new conceptual and constructional approaches.